(To which several new name suggestions were bandied about, including “YaKnow” and “Yah-dig.”)

Meanwhile, Glassdoor, a Sausalito firm that tracks jobs and companies, blogged that Bartz leaves Yahoo with a dismal 33 percent approval rating among its employees. The average CEO on Glassdoor has a 62 percent approval rating. (Steve Jobs left Apple last month with a 97 percent approval rating).

Its ratings is based on about 300 reviews from Yahoo employees. Bartz had started out her tenure with a high 90 percent. For the most recent quarter, it plummeted to 33 percent (after an all-time low of 24 percent). On the whole during her time at Yahoo, she received a 54 percent approval rating.